My general research interests are in the neuromodulation of information processing in the central nervous system by the physiological state and the evolution of modulatory systems. In 2000 I obtained my BSc in Invertebrate Biology at the University of Alberta and in 2007 I obtained my PhD in Insect Science from the University of Arizona in the lab of Dr. John Hildebrand and Dr. Thomas Christensen. From 2007 to 2010 I was a post-doc in the lab of Dr. Alan Nighorn at the University of Arizona in the Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching program and from 2010 to 2012 I was a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Klaudiusz Weiss at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In 2013, I started my own laboratory in the Department of Biology at West Virginia University where we study the mechanisms and consequences of neuromodulation in the olfactory system of insects.